Propafenone

[alfrae13]

How good is propafenone to control paroxysmal afib and can it be used as PIP instead of flacainide

[pip_pip]

It's according to the individual user. You won't know until you try. To be negative about it, when I started Propofenone for a few days, it changed my heart beat into very fast flutter and I spent another week in hospital. Flec did the same thing.

Can it be used as pip. ? Maybe.... Someone else might help on that

Pip

[Bagrat]

It seems to be less used in UK. My husband developed what turned out to be permanent slow AF on holiday in Lanzarote in 2012. He had excellent care and was started on fragmin and propafenone out there. Even taken regularly it did not change things, so was stoppedon return to uk.Agree with pip_pip that one ( or in this case two) swallow does not make a summer and many people take it to good effect. No idea re using it as a pip though

[Vonnegut]

How different we all are! Flecainide worked brilliantly for me as a PIP and now that I take it regularly, I haven’t had an AF episode for over a year and the last one was stopped soon after an extra pill as a PIP and must have happened at around the time I was infected with covid (very mildly as I’ve had all the jabs!)

[marcyh]

It works as a PIP for my paroxysmal AF.

[ublong]

I immediately feel it when the “unwanted guest” (my EP’s words) arrives. I take 300 mg of Propafenone together with 125 mg Magnesium and chug it down with a small can of low sodium V-8 (for potassium). It usually gets me back in NSR in a few hours.